Bioethics graduates share their experience in the webinar "What does a Bioethicist do?"

On March 1st, the Masters in Bioethics held the webinar "What does a bioethicist do?" in which doctoral student Noemí Sirena (Doctorate in Bioethics, gen. '20), Dr. Germán Carreto (Doctorate in Bioethics, gen. '18) and Ariana González Barrere (Master's in Bioethics, gen. '18) participated, all graduates of our Faculty.

The Querida Amazonía group holds a discussion in commemoration of International Women's Day

On March 8th, a conversation was held in commemoration of Women's Day entitled: "The female face in the church: building hope at the borders." On this occasion we have the participation of Dr. Emilce Cuda, who is currently Secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, Sr. Conny Mateos RSCJ who is a religious of the Sacred Heart in Mexico, Prof. María Eugenia Cárdenas, director of the Anahuac Center for Leadership and Comprehensive Postgraduate Training and Director of the Anáhuac México Women's Institute, as well as with Sr. Dolores Palencia, belonging to the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Lyon.

Academic of Bioethics gives a lecture at the Catholic Medical Center in Mumbai, India

On February 12th, Dr. María Elizabeth de los Ríos Uriarte, research coordinator of the Faculty of Bioethics, gave the conference "Equitable distribution of Healthcare resources - life saving equipment and drugs".

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The crisis experienced due to the pandemic created by COVID-19 has developed the urgent need to expand the horizons of bioethics, to bring it to the reflection and solution of problems that concern all human beings and that are intrinsically connected with each other. others.

Today more than ever it is necessary to think about human relations and the environment we inhabit, attending to particular and local circumstances from a global horizon, methodology, principles and proposals. Today the problems are no longer individual; now they are collective and shared, on a global scale, persistent over time, and require great collective efforts to mitigate and eradicate them. Thus giving the slogans with which global bioethics arises.

In the first article, Henk ten Have, presents his article COVID-19 and global bioethics, where he proposes three approaches to respond to the pandemic: a) exceptionality, b) controllability, and c) the binary approach. With what helps to recover the relationship between people, as well as solidarity, which are the fundamental principles to recover the dignity and protect the health of human beings.

In the second article by Cristina de la Cruz "Bioethics and global justice. Critical analysis of the global COVID-19 vaccination strategy", the author considers the ethical problem of the criteria for the distribution of vaccines from global justice. Discussing thus, proposals for a fair distribution of vaccines, under the assumption that all countries should have the right to access them, since health is a common good and an international human right.

In the third article of this issue, "Global bioethics: new arguments about animal rights?", by Gómez Álvarez, allows a renewed discussion around the old problem about whether or not animals have rights and, after analyzing the existing bibliography, discovers that the arguments used are almost always the same, with the exception of some that are novel.

In the fourth article "Bioethical implications in the contagion effect of suicide", by Érika Benítez, she looks at a painful reality that has become more acute in this time of pandemic, which is suicide. The perspective from which the author addresses this problem is from the role and responsibility of the media in the "contagion effect" of suicide.

The article by Pasquale Gallo and Joseph Tham, "Comparison of NaProTechnology with Assisted Reproduction Techniques" where they present an interesting approach to NaProTechnology in comparison with current assisted reproduction techniques.

The last article in this issue, "Self-assessment of knowledge and application of the code of conduct by public health servants in Tlaxcala", Óscar Castañeda and Rosalba Jaramillo make an interesting analysis of adherence to the codes of conduct of public servants in a hospital in Tlaxcala, with the aim of verifying that, the greater adherence to the code, the higher level of user satisfaction and better quality in the services provided.

Finally, this issue presents a review:

The review that is presented is about the book "Bioethics" by Guerrero Martínez, where he offers a novel literature in the field of bioethics, since it analyzes topics that are not limited to the field of clinical bioethics, but that range from the use from biotechnologies to the debate on animal rights and, also, insofar as they are approached and reflected upon from the philosophical point of view of great thinkers, such as Kierkegaard, Gadamer, Derrida and Nussbaum.

From Editorial number 1, Vol. 33.

How NaProTechnology compares with Assisted Reproductive Technology

The progressive medicalization of infertility in the last three decades has corresponded to an increasing diffusion of the Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) which have nearly completely concealed other more physiological, less risky, inexpensive, and equally effective approaches to infertility. This paper tries to show how a systematic and integrated approach, such as NaProTechnology (NPT), which aims at optimizing the physiological conditions in each menstrual cycle to allow a natural conception, seems to be a better solution for the treatment of infertility from ethical, medical, social, legal, and environmental points of view.

CONBIOETHICS RESOURCES: February Catalog 2022

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LILIAN OMUTOKO

What I am doing as a Bioethicist that I would like to share.

1. Publication of a Bioethics Series
Spearheading publication of a Bioethics series to be published by Springer Publishers. The target authors are the 2019 Global Bioethics Students (Anahuac), those who graduated in December 2021 and other Bioethicists. So far, we have 11 manuscripts and need at least 9 more to meet the publishers’ minimum requirement.

2. Establishment of an African Bioethics Network
Working with Mercury Shitindo (Student link in Bioethics between Anáhuac University- Kenya) and Walter Jaoko, both alumni of Anáhuac University to set up an African Bioethics Network to create a platform for partnerships and collaborations among African States. The main aim of the network is sensitization on ethical challenges, capacity building and engagement in activities that will help in solving ethical problems facing Africa and the world at large.

3. Facilitation of Bioethics Training
I have had increased involvement in training ethics research committee members and researchers.

4. Establishment of Hospital Ethics Committees
In partnership with Kenya National Commission of UNESCO, we have so far supported the establishment of Hospital Ethics Committees (HECs) in 3 public hospitals in Kenya. In January 2022 a sensitization meeting was held as a precursor of bringing the Ministry of Health- a major stakeholder- on board to support the effort of establishing HECs in Kenya and develop a curriculum for training HEC members.

5. Speaker at the International Clinical Ethics Conference in South Africa in December 2021
I was invited to the International Clinical Ethics Conference as a speaker on Culture and Multipluralism in End of Life Care.

6. Curriculum Development
Participated in development of a Curriculum for Master of Bioethics which is already in place in one of the private universities in Kenya.

7. Appointment
Appointed as a member of the National Scientific and Ethics Committee in 2021

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